This short 10 question quiz will try to categorize your political leanings (left liberal, right conservative, centrist, libertarian, or statist). A great conversation starter!
CheckPlease the most downloaded tip calculator on the AppStore is now available for the iPad for $0.99.“…This is a tremendous app that will put all your financial date in the palm of your hand….” – The Examiner.com
Pocketmoney for the iPhone/iPod; always at the tips of your fingers
August 15th, 2010PocketMoney 3.0.8 submitted to Apple for review
August 13th, 2010I decided to release 3.0.8 to fix a few of the bugs that were causing some users some issues, and not rush the 3.1 release, although 3.0.8 is getting a few new features that I was planning on being part of 3.1 – Keep the Change, Month-by-Month report for Chart IAP owners, and Document downloads through Safari and Mail from your banks.
New stuff:
- “Keep the Change” added to transfer the change of the current transaction to a specified account.
- Option to link/unlink the id field of transfers.
- Operators are shown for calculations in amount fields when using calculator keypad.
- Update icons and graphics for Retina Displays
- Options for clearing splits and not filling in the amount during auto-competes of transactions has been added under PocketMoney’s Settings > Miscellaneous.
- Photo receipts are backup when using SyncDocs.
- Download QIF/OFX/QFX files through Safari or Mail and open them with PocketMoney, no longer requiring a desktop computer to download you bank statement before you import it into PocketMoney.
New stuff for purchasers of the Charts In-App-Purchase:
- Added a month-by-month report so you can visualize your spending by month. A good way to use this report is to first run a Category Report, then drill down into a category like Utilities, then run the Month-By-Month report and look at your monthly spending over the course of the year. Spikes in your spending will pop right out at you.
Utilities Month-by-Month for 2010
New for PocketMoney LITE:
- Ads have been added to help generate some additional revenue.
- The Pie chart display is now available to Lite users in the Reports section.
- Plus Keep the Change, and Document downloads through Safari/Mail features the full version has received.
Fixed bugs:
- Password screen engages correctly on multi-tasking devices so your data can’t been seen.
- Importing amounts in QIF files fixed.
- OFX import matches more existing transactions.
- Calculator keyboard back for iOS 3.1-3.1.3 users.
- Other minor bugs fixed.
PocketMoney for Desktops 1.0 beta 6
August 11th, 2010PocketMoney Desktops 1.0 beta 6
Main fixes for this beta are:
- Windows users should be able to register the product
- Resizable columns
- Improved handling of transfers, in particular: editing a transfer no longer duplicates the related transaction, creating a transfer uses Transfer To to match iPhone version
- Added maintenance screen for IDs
- Fixed a problem with saving split amounts; new splits default to withdrawal instead of deposit
- Correctly calculating total worth using home currency for accounts that are in another currency
- Synchronization bug fixes
WSPQ for iPad submitted to Apple
August 2nd, 2010
The iPad version of Worlds Smallest Political Quiz has been submitted to Apple for approval.
- Single page to take the quiz.
- More Information links to The Advocates website for details and allows you to sign up for more information.
- Statistics to keep track of how people have scored on the quiz. Great for tracking overall statistics at events such as county or state fairs.
MPG 1.4 and MPG with ads submitted to Apple
August 2nd, 2010
Version 1.4 of MPG and “MPG with ads” has been submitted to Apple.
- Chart added in the Fuel Report to your fuel economy over time in a graphical presentation.
- Export reports to e-mail.
- Service odometer shows distance since last service of same type.
- Rearrange vehicle list.
- Date picker for reports.
- Bug fixes.
- Paid version supports iOS 3.1+, adware version is iOS 4.0+
PoketMoney 3.1 delayed
July 29th, 2010I told several people I was going to be submitting 3.1 of PocketMoney to Apple this week, but an issue came up with the syncing to the desktop version of PocketMoney that needs to be fixed so it is delayed for a little longer. More news to come.
PocketMoney for Desktops 1.0 beta 5
July 28th, 2010I’ve posted information about PocketMoney for Desktops 1.0b5 to the forums. See this post:
Today! 1.0.1 and Today! with Ads available
July 12th, 2010Mail, Messages, and Phone all show a badge when you have things to do in them, but Calendar is missing this crucial piece of information so that allows you to quickly view what you have left to do today without needing to open Calendar. Today! gives you this info and more…
❑ Red badge on icon shows you at a glance how many appointments you still have.
❑ Shows all information you need about appointment time, location, and notes for the appointment without needing extra taps.
❑ Integrates with Maps so you can tap on location to open the route to your next appointment.
❑ Pick which calendars to show in appointments for today.
Note1: Location Services are used to figure out your current location when plotting your route in Maps.
Note2: If you make changes in Calendar for appointments happening today, then you should reopen Today! so it can get the new changes.
Buy Today! $2.99 (no ads to get in your way)
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Today! – appointment counts, map integration,
June 29th, 2010[Update: I've removed Today! from AppStore due to a bug many users are experiencing. We think it is related to users with a large number of calendar events coupled with an inefficient query we were doing to cause the startup to take too long which results in the iOS terminating the application. When version 1.0.1 is approved by Apple, then I'll make it available again.]
Take a look at Today! on the AppStore
Apple’s AppStore review process better, but still takes too long — harms customers
June 29th, 2010PocketMoney users recently experienced one of the negative side effects of Apple’s long AppStore review process… which recently happened after users upgraded to iOS 4.0 and installed version 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that among other things fixed some issues related to iOS 4.0, but a very serious bug was also introduced in 3.0.6.
This bug that caused transactions to switch accounts is my fault, and version 3.0.6 should have never have been released with this bug, but it was released and now I need to learn from my mistakes.
The mistakes that are in my control can be fixed to a certain extent with the proper testing, and I plan on adding notifications to my applications so I have a way to directly communicate with customers when serious issues happen.
What I don’t have control of is the AppStore review process, and it is something that after 16 years in the software industry I still trying to adapt to. Typically if a serious bug arose in any of my apps on other platforms I’d release a fix immediately and very few users would ever be affected. But, the AppStore’s “review lag” takes a serious bug is turns it into a disaster for not just a few customers, but for multitudes of customers.
Requesting Apple to expedite the process helps, but still isn’t fast enough. It must be immediate. I’m willing to pay $10k or something to Apple to be able to instantly approve updates. Yes, make us send new apps through the review process to make sure they conform with all of Apple’s guidelines, but put updates post-approval process so we can get urgent updates out immediately.